Hans-Joachim Mosler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 159272 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hans-Joachim Mosler |
| PRENOMES | Hans-Joachim |
| SOBRENOME | Mosler |
| ASSINATURA | MOSLER H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3532-6487 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Effect of a behavior change and hardware intervention on safe child feces management practices in rural Odisha, India
This trial was retrospectively registered at ISRCTN15831099 on 18/02/2020, which was approximately two months after the first participant was recruited for the baseline survey on 02/12/2019
Study design and rationale for a cluster randomized trial of a safe child feces management intervention in rural Odisha, India
This trial is registered at ISRCTN: ISRCTN15831099
Refining hand washing interventions by identifying active ingredients
How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) promote latrine construction, and can it be improved? A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Ghana
The link between mental health and safe drinking water behaviors in a vulnerable population in rural Malawi
These results imply that populations with a significant proportion of individuals with poor mental health will benefit from interventions to mitigate mental health before or parallel to behavioral change interventions for WASH. Specific population-level interventions have been shown to have a positive effect on mental well-being, and they have been successfully applied at scale. This research is especially relevant in emergency contexts, as it in…
The Impact of Various Promotional Activities on Ebola Prevention Behaviors and Psychosocial Factors Predicting Ebola Prevention Behaviors in the Gambia Evaluation of Ebola Prevention Promotions
The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) from 2014 to 2016 is over. However, several outbreaks of contagious diseases have already arisen and will recur. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of EVD prevention promotions in the Gambia and to assess the psychosocial factors that steer three behaviors: handwashing with soap, calling the Ebola Hotline, and not touching a person who might be suffering from EVD. In 2015, data were gathere…
Factors Associated with Levels of Latrine Completion and Consequent Latrine Use in Northern Ghana
Open defecation is still a major health problem in developing countries. While enormous empirical research exists on latrine coverage, little is known about households' latrine construction and usage behaviours. Using field observation and survey data collected from 1523 households in 132 communities in northern Ghana after 16 months of implementation of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), this paper assessed the factors associated with latrin…
How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) affect latrine ownership? A quantitative case study from Mozambique
By including activities to focus on the mentioned factors, CLTS could be improved. Exemplary adaptations are discussed
Enhancing handwashing frequency and technique of primary caregivers in Harare, Zimbabwe
Does depression moderate handwashing in children
Depression exerts a negative influence on handwashing in children. These results suggest depression-relieving measures should be conducted together with any water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to make such interventions more effective
Contextual and psychosocial factors predicting Ebola prevention behaviours using the Ranas approach to behaviour change in Guinea-Bissau
Strengths and gaps were identified in the study population in relation to the intention to perform prevention behaviours. These call for innovative ways of aligning existing hygiene programs with relevant psychosocial factors. This research is relevant to further outbreaks of contagious diseases as it sheds light on important aspects of the impact of public health interventions during emergencies and epidemics
Optimizing Campaigns for Changing Routine Behaviors by Using an Empirically Calibrated Microsimulation Model
We used the model of prospective memory and habit development to derive recommendations for designing behavior-change campaigns that used prompts or household visits as reminders. We followed an exemplary procedure comprising the calibration of the model, based on 48 time series gathered during a campaign promoting recycling habits and a systematic exploration of the solution space. For the parameter estimation, an algorithm was developed that wo…
Effectiveness of group discussions and commitment in improving cleaning behaviour of shared sanitation users in Kampala, Uganda slums
Changing handwashing behaviour in southern Ethiopia
Shared toilet users’ collective cleaning and determinant factors in Kampala slums, Uganda
The RANAS factors provide a more robust understanding of shared toilet users' cleaning behaviour than social dilemma factors. Self-regulating factors and changing the negative affective cleaning feelings are shown to be very important for interventions to increase shared toilet users' collective participation in their cleaning. In addition to RANAS, social dilemma factors have an important influence on slum residents' commitment to clean their sh…
Determinants of households' cleaning intention for shared toilets
Developing and testing theory-based and evidence-based interventions to promote switching to arsenic-safe wells in Bangladesh
Millions of people in Bangladesh drink arsenic-contaminated water despite increased awareness of consequences to health. Theory-based and evidence-based interventions are likely to have greater impact on people switching to existing arsenic-safe wells than providing information alone. To test this assumption, we first developed interventions based on an empirical test of the Risk, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation (RANAS) model of b…
Predicting water consumption habits for seven arsenic-safe water options in Bangladesh
This general model for the habitual use of arsenic-safe water options may prove useful to predict other water consumption habits. Behavior-change interventions are derived from the model to promote the habitual use of arsenic-safe water options
A systematic approach to behavior change interventions for the water and sanitation sector in developing countries
Public health practitioners increasingly agree that it is not enough to provide people with water and sanitation hardware. Numerous approaches are used to tackle the "software" which means to ensure behavior change necessary to come along with the sanitation hardware. A review of these approaches reveals several shortcomings, most importantly that they do not provide behavioral change interventions which correspond to psychological factors to be …
Information Preferences and Corresponding Consumption Behavior in Common Pool Resource Management
For the purpose of managing a common pool resource (CPR), it may be crucial to know what kind of information is important to the actors involved. The present study tests a set of hypotheses from the social ecological relevance (SER) model of decision-making in commons dilemma situations. The results showed that (1) information about the resource increased in importance with decreasing resource availability, (2) this increase was more pronounced i…
Factors from the Transtheoretical Model Differentiating between Solar Water Disinfection (Sodis) User Groups
Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is a sustainable household water treatment technique that could prevent millions of deaths caused by diarrhoea. The behaviour change process necessary to move from drinking raw water to drinking SODIS is analysed with the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM). User groups and psychological factors that differentiate between types of users are identified. Results of a 1.5 year longitudinal study in Zimbabwe reveal…
Implications of Stakeholder Constellations for the Implementation of Irrigation Rules at Jointly Used Wells—Cases from the North China Plain, China
In view of the declining groundwater table in the North China Plain, this article explores whether, under current farmer groups' irrigation rules and their enforcement, control on irrigation water use can be high. This article first explores whether the sample's rule designs enable potentially excessive irrigation water use to be monitored and sanctioned. It then examines whether this potential to monitor and sanction is exploited under the given…
Differences in influence patterns between groups predicting the adoption of a solar disinfection technology for drinking water in Bolivia
Wastewater management in Kunming, China
Large sewer systems with central wastewater treatment plants were long considered a successful model that could be exported to practically any city of the world. This centralized, highly water-consuming system has, however, shown its limits in some developing and transition countries, especially in fast-growing cities with limited water resources. This study from around Lake Dianchi in Yunnan, China, investigated the feasibility of introducing me…
Psychological Factors Determining Individual Compliance with Rules for Common Pool Resource Management
Psychological Factors Determining Individual Compliance with Rules for Common Pool Resource Management
Computer Simulation as a Method of Further Developing a Theory
Implemented specifically as a method of theory development, computer simulation allows clarification of a theory and investigation of its implications. Using Petty and Cacioppo's (1986a, 1986b) Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), the use of simulation in formalizing a theory, testing the simulation model, and conducting simulation experiments is demonstrated. With formalization of the theory in the form of a block diagram, the entire pattern of c…
Changing handwashing behaviour in southern Ethiopia
Effectiveness of group discussions and commitment in improving cleaning behaviour of shared sanitation users in Kampala, Uganda slums
Self-dissemination of environmentally-responsible behavior
Enhancing handwashing frequency and technique of primary caregivers in Harare, Zimbabwe
Developing and testing theory-based and evidence-based interventions to promote switching to arsenic-safe wells in Bangladesh
Millions of people in Bangladesh drink arsenic-contaminated water despite increased awareness of consequences to health. Theory-based and evidence-based interventions are likely to have greater impact on people switching to existing arsenic-safe wells than providing information alone. To test this assumption, we first developed interventions based on an empirical test of the Risk, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation (RANAS) model of b…
Differences in influence patterns between groups predicting the adoption of a solar disinfection technology for drinking water in Bolivia
Integrating commons dilemma findings in a general dynamic model of cooperative behavior in resource crises
The research on commons dilemmas is characterized by innumerable published findings, each standing relatively isolated from the other. To date there is little integration of the findings under a unified concept. The present contribution aims to integrate already existing findings in a general dynamic model of cooperative behavior in resource crises by means of computer simulation. The model postulates that people base their decisions regarding re…
How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) promote latrine construction, and can it be improved? A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Ghana
Determinants of households' cleaning intention for shared toilets
Information Preferences and Corresponding Consumption Behavior in Common Pool Resource Management
For the purpose of managing a common pool resource (CPR), it may be crucial to know what kind of information is important to the actors involved. The present study tests a set of hypotheses from the social ecological relevance (SER) model of decision-making in commons dilemma situations. The results showed that (1) information about the resource increased in importance with decreasing resource availability, (2) this increase was more pronounced i…
Implications of Stakeholder Constellations for the Implementation of Irrigation Rules at Jointly Used Wells—Cases from the North China Plain, China
In view of the declining groundwater table in the North China Plain, this article explores whether, under current farmer groups' irrigation rules and their enforcement, control on irrigation water use can be high. This article first explores whether the sample's rule designs enable potentially excessive irrigation water use to be monitored and sanctioned. It then examines whether this potential to monitor and sanction is exploited under the given…
Self-dissemination of environmentally-responsible behavior
Die Organisation kollektiver Aktionen durch Beeinflussung der individuellen Teilnahmeentscheidung
Social Influence among Agents
Computer Simulation as a Method of Further Developing a Theory
Implemented specifically as a method of theory development, computer simulation allows clarification of a theory and investigation of its implications. Using Petty and Cacioppo's (1986a, 1986b) Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), the use of simulation in formalizing a theory, testing the simulation model, and conducting simulation experiments is demonstrated. With formalization of the theory in the form of a block diagram, the entire pattern of c…
Erfahrungen mit der LA 21 in Schweizer GemeindenExperiences with Local Agenda 21 (LA 21) in German Switzerland—Swiss municipalities on the way to sustainable strategies
This article presents and discusses the results of a survey about initial experiences with Local Agenda 21 (LA 21) in German-speaking Swiss municipalities. It provides insight into the development of the discussion about sustainable development and the activities that are in line with Local Agenda 21. Local authorities point out opportunities and risks that go along with LA 21 processes. Further they bring up obstacles that hinder sustainable dev…
Integrating commons dilemma findings in a general dynamic model of cooperative behavior in resource crises
The research on commons dilemmas is characterized by innumerable published findings, each standing relatively isolated from the other. To date there is little integration of the findings under a unified concept. The present contribution aims to integrate already existing findings in a general dynamic model of cooperative behavior in resource crises by means of computer simulation. The model postulates that people base their decisions regarding re…
Wastewater management in Kunming, China
Large sewer systems with central wastewater treatment plants were long considered a successful model that could be exported to practically any city of the world. This centralized, highly water-consuming system has, however, shown its limits in some developing and transition countries, especially in fast-growing cities with limited water resources. This study from around Lake Dianchi in Yunnan, China, investigated the feasibility of introducing me…
Psychological Factors Determining Individual Compliance with Rules for Common Pool Resource Management
Differences in influence patterns between groups predicting the adoption of a solar disinfection technology for drinking water in Bolivia
Implications of Stakeholder Constellations for the Implementation of Irrigation Rules at Jointly Used Wells—Cases from the North China Plain, China
In view of the declining groundwater table in the North China Plain, this article explores whether, under current farmer groups' irrigation rules and their enforcement, control on irrigation water use can be high. This article first explores whether the sample's rule designs enable potentially excessive irrigation water use to be monitored and sanctioned. It then examines whether this potential to monitor and sanction is exploited under the given…
Information Preferences and Corresponding Consumption Behavior in Common Pool Resource Management
For the purpose of managing a common pool resource (CPR), it may be crucial to know what kind of information is important to the actors involved. The present study tests a set of hypotheses from the social ecological relevance (SER) model of decision-making in commons dilemma situations. The results showed that (1) information about the resource increased in importance with decreasing resource availability, (2) this increase was more pronounced i…
Factors from the Transtheoretical Model Differentiating between Solar Water Disinfection (Sodis) User Groups
Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is a sustainable household water treatment technique that could prevent millions of deaths caused by diarrhoea. The behaviour change process necessary to move from drinking raw water to drinking SODIS is analysed with the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM). User groups and psychological factors that differentiate between types of users are identified. Results of a 1.5 year longitudinal study in Zimbabwe reveal…
A systematic approach to behavior change interventions for the water and sanitation sector in developing countries
Public health practitioners increasingly agree that it is not enough to provide people with water and sanitation hardware. Numerous approaches are used to tackle the "software" which means to ensure behavior change necessary to come along with the sanitation hardware. A review of these approaches reveals several shortcomings, most importantly that they do not provide behavioral change interventions which correspond to psychological factors to be …
Predicting water consumption habits for seven arsenic-safe water options in Bangladesh
This general model for the habitual use of arsenic-safe water options may prove useful to predict other water consumption habits. Behavior-change interventions are derived from the model to promote the habitual use of arsenic-safe water options
Shared toilet users’ collective cleaning and determinant factors in Kampala slums, Uganda
The RANAS factors provide a more robust understanding of shared toilet users' cleaning behaviour than social dilemma factors. Self-regulating factors and changing the negative affective cleaning feelings are shown to be very important for interventions to increase shared toilet users' collective participation in their cleaning. In addition to RANAS, social dilemma factors have an important influence on slum residents' commitment to clean their sh…
Determinants of households' cleaning intention for shared toilets
Developing and testing theory-based and evidence-based interventions to promote switching to arsenic-safe wells in Bangladesh
Millions of people in Bangladesh drink arsenic-contaminated water despite increased awareness of consequences to health. Theory-based and evidence-based interventions are likely to have greater impact on people switching to existing arsenic-safe wells than providing information alone. To test this assumption, we first developed interventions based on an empirical test of the Risk, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation (RANAS) model of b…
Optimizing Campaigns for Changing Routine Behaviors by Using an Empirically Calibrated Microsimulation Model
We used the model of prospective memory and habit development to derive recommendations for designing behavior-change campaigns that used prompts or household visits as reminders. We followed an exemplary procedure comprising the calibration of the model, based on 48 time series gathered during a campaign promoting recycling habits and a systematic exploration of the solution space. For the parameter estimation, an algorithm was developed that wo…
Effectiveness of group discussions and commitment in improving cleaning behaviour of shared sanitation users in Kampala, Uganda slums
Changing handwashing behaviour in southern Ethiopia
Does depression moderate handwashing in children
Depression exerts a negative influence on handwashing in children. These results suggest depression-relieving measures should be conducted together with any water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to make such interventions more effective
Contextual and psychosocial factors predicting Ebola prevention behaviours using the Ranas approach to behaviour change in Guinea-Bissau
Strengths and gaps were identified in the study population in relation to the intention to perform prevention behaviours. These call for innovative ways of aligning existing hygiene programs with relevant psychosocial factors. This research is relevant to further outbreaks of contagious diseases as it sheds light on important aspects of the impact of public health interventions during emergencies and epidemics
How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) affect latrine ownership? A quantitative case study from Mozambique
By including activities to focus on the mentioned factors, CLTS could be improved. Exemplary adaptations are discussed
Enhancing handwashing frequency and technique of primary caregivers in Harare, Zimbabwe
The link between mental health and safe drinking water behaviors in a vulnerable population in rural Malawi
These results imply that populations with a significant proportion of individuals with poor mental health will benefit from interventions to mitigate mental health before or parallel to behavioral change interventions for WASH. Specific population-level interventions have been shown to have a positive effect on mental well-being, and they have been successfully applied at scale. This research is especially relevant in emergency contexts, as it in…
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